Paul Johnson: >>> One option is to add users one by one to the fuse group in /etc/group. >>> But I don't have time to do that, and there are hundreds of users. Tim: >> Scripting to automate changing membership? You'd probably, also, want >> to script the user-adding routine for the future, to add new users to >> the groups you use on your system. Paul Johnson: > You are making this way too hard. Even if I could figure it out, I > could never teach a part time lab assistant. I can't create an ever > more complicated chain of tools and scripts for things like this > because at some point an ordinary human will have to administer these > systems, possibly adding users with a Fedora tool like > system-config-users. I would imagine that there's a way to specify default groups to be added to. And I'm fairly certain that someone would have made a way to easily modify batches of existing users. There are some tools around for systems configuration, darned if I can recall the name of one of them at the moment, other than something beginning with "s". No, I don't mean something like system-config-whatever, there's a third-party package. Sab... sat... I can't remember. Maybe start with a search query like: <http://www.google.com.au/search?&q=remote+admin+of+a+group+of+fedora +linux+computers> Webmin might be worth looking at, but I haven't used it for years. > Is Fedora supposed to be a desktop distribution for users or not? A lab of computers isn't exactly a default condition. Most networks, whether Fedora or otherwise, would probably need some customisation. At least with Linux, you *can* customise such things to your heart's content. If labs setting up computers don't have a competent administrator for it, that's where the real problem lay. > How in the HELL do the people who put fuse into the distribution expect > "ordinary" people to use it? I refuse to believe the makers of the > program expect it to be such a massive pain in the ass. > > But, then again, I'm often surprised. I still can't get over the > difficulty of mounting drives when not root. I haven't played with Fuse, but I can well understand why non-root users shouldn't be allowed to mount drives by *default*. It does make it all too easy for a malcontent to introduce something unwanted, or steal files. Of course, you are allowed to change the defaults. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
